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- archipelago in the southern Red Sea that as of November 1, 1998, was officially recognized as sovereign territory of Yemen. Long under Ottoman sovereignty, the island group's political status was ... [1 Related Articles]
- haniwa
- unglazed terra-cotta cylinders and hollow sculptures arranged on and around the mounded tombs (kofun) of the Japanese elite dating from the Tumulus period (c. AD 250-552). The first and most ... [4 Related Articles]
- Haniya, Ismail
- (from the article "Israel") ...Bank population at 1,486,000 and that of the Gaza Strip at 1,177,000 | Principal administrative centres: Ramallah and Gaza | Head of government: President Mahmoud Abbas, assisted by Prime Ministers ...
- hank
- in textile manufacture, unit of measure applied to a length of yarn or to a loose assemblage of fibres forming a single strand, and varying according to the fibre origin. ...
- Hank Gonzalez, Carlos
- Mexican politician (b. Aug. 28, 1927, Santiago Tianguistenco, Mex.-d. Aug. 11, 2001, Santiago Tianguistenco), was a highly influential member of Mexico's long-ruling Institutional Revolutionary Party and held public office almost ...
- hanka
- (from the article "Japanese literature") The choka often concluded with one or more hanka ("envoys") that resume central points of the preceding poem. The hanka written ...
- Hankey, Maurice Pascal Alers Hankey, 1st Baron
- soldier and politician, first holder of the office of secretary to the British Cabinet. He also was British secretary at several international conferences, notably at Versailles (1919), Washington (1921), Genoa ...
- hanko
- (from the article "education") ...which provided the moral training for upper-class samurai that was essential for maintaining the ideology of the feudal regime. Han, or feudal domains, following the same policy, built hanko, or ...
- Hanko Peninsula
- (from the article "Russo-Finnish War") ...help from Britain and France, the exhausted Finns made peace on Soviet terms on March 12, 1940, agreeing to the cession of western Karelia and to the construction of a ...
- Hankou
- large urban area and river port, east-central Hubei sheng (province), central China. Located on the left bank of the Han River at its confluence with the Yangtze ... [4 Related Articles]
- Hanks, Nancy
- (from the article "Lincoln, Abraham") ...weaver's apprentice who had migrated from England to Massachusetts in 1637. Though much less prosperous than some of his Lincoln forebears, Thomas was a sturdy pioneer. On June 12, 1806, ...
- Hanks, Nancy
- American public official whose position as chair of the National Endowment for the Arts allowed her to dramatically increase funding for and programs in the arts.
- Hanks, Tom
- American film actor whose cheerful, everyman persona made him a natural for starring roles in many popular films. In the 1990s he expanded his comedic repertoire and began portraying lead ... [4 Related Articles]
- Hankyu Electric Railway
- (from the article "Osaka-Kobe metropolitan area") ...since 1920 there has been a migration from the city to the suburbs, helped along by private railway companies that have made suburban building land available along their rights-of-way. The ...
- Hanlin Academy
- elite scholarly institution founded in the 8th century AD in China to perform secretarial, archival, and literary tasks for the court and to establish the official interpretation of the Confucian ... [4 Related Articles]
- Hann, Julius von
- (from the article "Earth sciences") ...metres, took samples of air, and later determined that the rarefied air at that altitude contained the same percentage of oxygen (21.49 percent) as the air on the ground. Austrian ...
- Hanna and Barbera
- American motion-picture animators and partners in Hanna-Barbera Productions, founded in 1957. William Hanna (in full William Denby Hanna; b. July 14, 1910, Melrose, N.M., U.S., -d. March 22, 2001, Hollywood, ...
- Hanna, Arthur Dion
- (from the article "Bahamas, The") Area: 13,939 sq km (5,382 sq mi) | Population (2007 est.): 331,000 | Capital: Nassau | Chief of state: Queen Elizabeth II, represented by Governor-General Arthur Dion Hanna | ...
- Hanna, Mark
- American industrialist and prototype of the political kingmaker; he successfully promoted the presidential candidacy of William McKinley in the election of 1896 and personified the growing influence of big business ... [2 Related Articles]
- Hanna, Sir Roland Pembroke
- American jazz pianist (b. Feb. 10, 1932, Detroit, Mich.-d. Nov. 13, 2002, Harris, N.Y.), fused classical music bravura and bop-era sophistication as a versatile accompanist, leader, and soloist. While attending ...
- Hanna, William Denby
- American animator (b. July 14, 1910, Melrose, N.M.-d. March 22, 2001, Los Angeles, Calif.), in his more than 50-year collaboration with Joseph Barbera, created such popular cartoon characters as Tom ... [1 Related Articles]
- Hannah
- (11th century BC), mother of Samuel, the Jewish judge. Childless as one of the two wives of Elkanah, she prayed for a son, promising to dedicate him to God. Her ... [3 Related Articles]
- Hannah Duston Memorial Historic Site
- (from the article "Merrimack") The Hannah Duston Memorial Historic Site commemorates a clash between settlers and Abenaki Indians in Boscawen in 1697. Daniel Webster was born near Franklin in 1782. The village of Canterbury, ...
- Hannah, Barry
- American author of darkly comic, often violent novels and short stories set in the Deep South.
- Hannahanna
- (from the article "Anatolian religion") There was a mother goddess, Hannahanna "the grandmother," closely associated with birth, creation, and destiny, but the theologians appear to have regarded her as a minor deity.
- Hannan, Michael T.
- (from the article "organizational analysis") In their work Organizational Ecology (1989), the American sociologists Michael T. Hannan and John Freeman argued that reliability and accountability-the very properties that make organizations the favoured social forms in ...
- Hannan, Paddy
- (from the article "Kalgoorlie") ...to the south, it forms the principal settlement of the East Coolgardie goldfield, on the western fringe of the Nullarbor Plain and the Great Victoria Desert. Mining began with a ...
- Hannay, James Ballantyne
- (from the article "synthetic diamond") In 1880 the Scottish chemist James Ballantyne Hannay claimed that he had made diamonds by heating a mixture of paraffin, bone oil, and lithium to red heat in sealed wrought-iron ...
- Hannibal
- Carthaginian general, one of the great military leaders of antiquity, who commanded the Carthaginian forces against Rome in the Second Punic War (218-201 BC). [23 Related Articles]
- Hannibal
- (from the article "Himera") ...rule of Theron's son, Thrasydaeus, but this only led to the citizens' massacre by Theron and a resettlement of the town with Dorians. Himera was finally destroyed in 409 by ...
- Hannibal
- city, Ralls and Marion counties, northeastern Missouri, U.S., on the Mississippi River, 100 miles (160 km) north of St. Louis. Noted as the boyhood home of Samuel Clemens (Mark Twain), ... [1 Related Articles]
- Hannington, James
- English Anglican missionary and first bishop of Eastern Equatorial Africa. [1 Related Articles]
- Hanno
- Carthaginian who conducted a voyage of exploration and colonization to the west coast of Africa sometime during the 5th century. Setting sail with 60 vessels holding 30,000 men and women, ... [5 Related Articles]
- Hanno
- also called Hanno The Great leader of the aristocratic pro-Roman faction at Carthage during the Second Punic War (218-201) between Rome and Carthage. In 241 Hanno was given command against ...
- Hannong, C. F.
- (from the article "pottery") ...noted for overglaze painting in the Rococo style. Perhaps the most influential factory was that of Strasbourg, in Alsace (which had officially become part of France in 1697), founded by ...
- Hannong, Joseph-Adam
- (from the article "Strasbourg ware") pottery made mostly in Strasbourg, Fr., under the direction of members of the Hannong family from 1721 to 1780. The factory was founded by Charles-Francois Hannong and was later administered ...
- Hannong, Paul-Antoine
- (from the article "Strasbourg ware") pottery made mostly in Strasbourg, Fr., under the direction of members of the Hannong family from 1721 to 1780. The factory was founded by Charles-Francois Hannong and was later administered ...
- Hannong, Pierre-Antoine
- (from the article "Vincennes ware") ...Dubois, until 1756 (three years after it had become the royal manufactory), when the concern moved to Sevres, near Versailles. After 1756 pottery continued to be made at Vincennes, under ...
- Hannover
- (from the article "Lower Saxony") ...established on Nov. 1, 1946, by the British military government, which merged the former Prussian province of Hanover with the states of Braunschweig, Oldenburg, and Schaumburg-Lippe. Its capital is Hannover. ...
- Hannover
- city, capital of Lower Saxony Land (state), northwestern Germany. It lies on the Leine River and the Mittelland Canal, where the spurs of the Harz Mountains meet ... [1 Related Articles]
- Hannum, Alex
- American basketball coach (b. July 19, 1923, Los Angeles, Calif.-d. Jan. 18, 2002, San Diego, Calif.), was the first coach to win championships in both the National Basketball Association (NBA) ...
- Hanoi
- capital, from 1976, of Vietnam; capital, 1954-76, of North Vietnam; and former capital of French Indochina. The city is situated in northern Vietnam on the western bank of the Red ... [8 Related Articles]
- Hanoi Plan of Action
- (from the article "Multinational and Regional Organizations") ...at the November meeting included economic innovation and reform, the development of small businesses, the encouragement of good corporate practices, and the revival of the faltering Doha round. The Hanoi ...
- Hanoi Poison Plot
- (from the article "De Tham") ...autonomous domain. Trouble continued, however, as De Tham strove to expand his holdings; but the French ignored his threats. In 1908 De Tham collaborated with other nationalists in an abortive ...
- Hanoi, Tower of
- (from the article "number game") The puzzle of the Tower of Hanoi is believed to have been originated in 1883 by Lucas, under the name of M. Claus. Ever popular, made of wood or plastic, ...
- Hanotaux, Gabriel
- statesman, diplomat, and historian who directed a major French colonial expansion in Africa and who championed a Franco-Russian alliance that proved important in the events leading to World War I. [1 Related Articles]
- Hanover
- town (township), Grafton county, western New Hampshire, U.S. It lies along the Connecticut River and includes the communities of Hanover and Etna. It was settled in 1765 and named for ...
- Hanover
- village, seat of Hanover county, east-central Virginia, U.S. It lies immediately east of Ashland, near the Pamunkey River, 15 miles (24 km) north of Richmond. Founded in 1720 and named ...
- Hanover
- borough (town), York county, southern Pennsylvania, U.S. It lies in the Conewago Creek valley, 20 miles (32 km) southwest of York. Laid out in 1763 by Colonel Richard McAllister, it ...
- Hanover
- former state of northwestern Germany, first an electorate (1692-1806) of the Holy Roman Empire, then a kingdom (1814-66), and finally a Prussian province (1866-1945). After World War II the state ... [4 Related Articles]
- Hanover Tavern
- (from the article "Hanover") ...by effectively pleading (December 1, 1763) the colony's case against the Parson's Cause. In 1775 he organized Virginia's first military company, the Hanover County Volunteers, in the village. The Hanover ...
- Hanover, House of
- British royal house of German origin, descended from George Louis, elector of Hanover, who succeeded to the British crown, as George I, in 1714. The dynasty provided six monarchs: George ... [2 Related Articles]
- Hanover, League of
- (from the article "Townshend, Charles Townshend, 2nd Viscount") ...president of the Privy Council and (in 1721) secretary of state. By 1724 he and Walpole were the leading figures in the ministry. Townshend's major diplomatic achievement was the formation ...
- hanren
- (from the article "Kublai Khan") The bulk of the population belonged to the third and fourth classes, the han-jen, or northern Chinese, and the man-tzu, or southern barbarians, who lived in what had been Sung ...
- Hanriot, Francois
- commander in chief of the Paris national guard during the supremacy of the Jacobin Club radicals, led by Maximilien Robespierre, in the French Revolution.
- Hans Adam II, prince of Liechtenstein
- member of the ruling family of Liechtenstein who became prince (head of state) in 1989. [5 Related Articles]
- Hans Hofmann School of Fine Art
- (from the article "Hofmann, Hans") In 1930 Hofmann moved to the United States, where he taught at the Art Students League in New York City and later opened his own Hans Hofmann School of Fine ...
- Hansard, Glen
- (from the article "2007: Other Winners") ...StreetOriginal Score: Dario Marianelli for AtonementOriginal Song: Falling Slowly from Once; music and lyrics by Glen Hansard and Marketa IrglovaAnimated Feature ...
- Hansberry, Lorraine
- American playwright whose A Raisin in the Sun (1959) was the first drama by an African American woman to be produced on Broadway. [2 Related Articles]
- Hansch, Theodor W.
- German physicist, who shared one-half of the 2005 Nobel Prize for Physics with John L. Hall for their contributions to the development of laser spectroscopy, the use of lasers to ... [4 Related Articles]
- Hanseatic bowl
- (from the article "metalwork") ...from the Baltic down to the Lower Rhine district and across to England. Because this area was once dominated by the Hanseatic League (a commercial association of free towns), the ...
- Hanseatic League
- organization founded by north German towns and German merchant communities abroad to protect their mutual trading interests. The league dominated commercial activity in northern Europe from the 13th to the ... [24 Related Articles]
- Hanseatic tankard
- (from the article "metalwork") Another early type of vessel belongs to a group known as Hanseatic tankards. These tankards have a heavy-looking, potbellied body set on a shallow circular base and a slightly convex ...
- Hansen Cave
- (from the article "Timpanogos Cave National Monument") The cave system consists of three separate chambers-Timpanogos, Middle, and Hansen caves-that have been connected by man-made tunnels. The caves are noted for their pink and white, crystal-filigreed walls and ...
- Hansen, Alvin Harvey
- American economist noted for his strong and influential advocacy of the theories of John Maynard Keynes. [1 Related Articles]
- Hansen, Brendan
- (from the article "Swimming") ...of 4 min 3.03 sec. A week later, at the Belarus championships, Alyaksandra Herasimenia clocked 28.19 sec in the 50-m backstroke, equaling the world record held by Germany's Janine Pietsch. ...
- Hansen, Christian Frederik
- (from the article "Western architecture") ...Frederick V in Roskilde Cathedral (1774-79), while in Sweden Desprez was responsible for the Botanical Institute in Uppsala (1791-1807), with a Greek Doric portico. The Danish architect Christian Frederik Hansen, ...
- Hansen, Emile Christian
- Danish botanist who revolutionized the brewing industry by his discovery of a new method of cultivating pure strains of yeast. [1 Related Articles]
- Hansen, H.C.
- politician and statesman who, as foreign minister and prime minister, led Denmark to a prominent position in the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) and guided the stabilization of Denmark's post-World ...
- Hansen, Hans Christian
- (from the article "Western architecture") ...discoveries in Greece and Sicily. He had visited Athens in 1835-36, and it was in this city, appropriately, that the Greek Revival was given perhaps its most fitting civic expression: ...
- Hansen, Jens Andersen
- journalist and politician, a leading 19th-century champion of Denmark's peasantry.
- Hansen, Joseph
- American writer, author of a series of crime novels featuring the homosexual insurance investigator and detective Dave Brandstetter. [1 Related Articles]
- Hansen, Martin Alfred
- one of the most widely read Danish authors of his day.
- Hansen, Peter Andreas
- astronomer whose most important work was the improvement of the theories and tables of the orbits of the principal bodies in the solar system.
- Hansen, William Webster
- American physicist who contributed to the development of radar and is regarded as the founder of microwave technology. [1 Related Articles]
- Hanshin Industrial Zone
- (from the article "Osaka-Kobe metropolitan area") ...in Japan, located on Osaka Bay in west-central Honshu at the eastern end of the Inland Sea. The cities of Osaka and Kobe are at the centre of what is ...
- Hanshin Tigers
- (from the article "Baseball") The Chiba Lotte Marines swept the Hanshin Tigers in four games in the 2005 Japan Series for their first Japanese baseball title since 1974, when they were known as the ...
- Hansi
- city, west-central Haryana state, northwestern India, on the road between Hissar city (northwest) and Delhi (southeast). Hansi is an ancient town and was probably a Kushan stronghold in the 1st ...
- Hanska, Eveline
- (from the article "Balzac, Honore de") ...of work-14 to 16 hours spent writing at his table in his white, quasi-monastic dressing gown, with his goose-quill pen and his endless cups of black coffee. In 1832 Balzac ...
- Hanslick, Eduard
- celebrated music critic and a prolific author of works on music and concert life. [4 Related Articles]
- hansom cab
- low, two-wheeled, closed carriage patented in 1834, whose distinctive feature was the elevated driver's seat in the rear. It was entered from the front through a folding door and had ...
- Hanson of Edgerton, James Edward Hanson, Baron
- British business magnate (b. Jan. 20, 1922, Huddersfield, Yorkshire, Eng.-d. Nov. 1, 2004, Newbury, Berkshire, Eng.), cofounded, with his partner Gordon White (later Lord White of Hull), Hanson PLC and, ...
- Hanson, Brooke
- (from the article "Swimming") ...produced four. At the five-day Indianapolis meet, which drew some 550 swimmers from 97 countries to a state-of-the-art temporary pool inside the packed 18,000-seat Conseco Fieldhouse, Australia's Brooke Hanson, a ...
- Hanson, Duane
- American figurative sculptor whose lifelike figures made of cast fibreglass and polyester resin and dressed in real clothes often fooled the public into believing that they were viewing real people. ... [3 Related Articles]
- Hanson, Howard
- composer, conductor, and teacher who promoted contemporary American music and was, in his own compositions, a principal representative of the Romantic tradition.
- Hanson, John
- American Revolutionary leader and president under the U.S. Articles of Confederation.
- Hanson, Pauline Lee
- In April 1997 a new political party, One Nation, was formed in Australia by controversial independent MP Pauline Hanson, who in her short political career had become well known throughout ... [1 Related Articles]
- Hanssen, Robert Philip
- (from the article "Law, Crime, and Law Enforcement") ...failures had occurred in its management and information network. The most damaging and embarrassing revelation came in February when it was announced that a veteran FBI counterintelligence agent, Robert Philip ...
- Hansson, Carola
- (from the article "Literature") ...meaning. The August Prize went to Monika Fagerholm for Den amerikanska flickan, which dealt with friendship between girls. In her grand, well-researched Mastarens drom Carola Hansson told a story of ...
- Hansson, Ola
- poet, prose writer, and critic, belatedly recognized as one of the most original of modern Swedish writers.
- Hansson, Per Albin
- Social Democratic statesman who, as four-time premier of Sweden between 1932 and 1946, led the nation out of the economic depression of the early 1930s, initiated key social-welfare legislation, and ... [1 Related Articles]
- Hansteen, Christopher
- Norwegian astronomer and physicist noted for his research in geomagnetism.
- Hanstholm
- (from the article "Vendsyssel-Thy") ...of the duneland for use as a wildlife sanctuary and holiday resort. Farming and fishing are limited, especially on and near the North Sea, and Thisted on the Limfjorden is ...
- Hanswurst
- (from the article "Stranitzky, Joseph Anton") Stranitzky's success rested in large part on his portrayal of Hanswurst, the sly, knowing, Viennese servant character he adopted and modified to provide opportunity for improvised comedy within vernacular, coarsely ...
- hantavirus
- any member of a genus of viruses (Hantavirus) of the family Bunyaviridae that cause acute respiratory illnesses in humans. The hantaviruses are rodent-borne viruses, each of which ... [2 Related Articles]
- hantavirus pulmonary syndrome
- (from the article "hantavirus") The second group of hantavirus diseases is hantavirus pulmonary syndrome (HPS), now recognized in a number of separate locations throughout the Western Hemisphere. HPS illnesses show a rapid onset of ...
- Hantilis
- (from the article "Anatolia") ...corresponded to the death of Mursilis, for after he returned to his own capital laden with booty, a conspiracy among his relatives resulted in his assassination. The succession of his ...
- Hantsport
- (from the article "Fundy, Bay of") ...some 3,600 square miles (9,300 square km). Its shores are indented by numerous coves and several large deepwater harbours, the main ones at Saint John and St. Andrews in New ...
- Hantzsch, Arthur Rudolf
- German chemist who won fame at the age of 25 for devising the synthesis of substituted pyridines.
- Hanukkah
- Jewish festival that begins on Kislev 25 (in December, according to the Gregorian calendar) and is celebrated for eight days. Hanukkah reaffirms the ideals of Judaism and commemorates in particular ... [6 Related Articles]
- Hanuman
- in Hindu mythology, the monkey commander of the monkey army. His exploits are included in the great Hindu Sanskrit poem the Ramayana ("Romance of Rama"). [4 Related Articles]
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